ALL IS WELL THAT ENDS WELL

Recently I came upon somethig which I wrote in the year 2008, which I wanted to share with you all, hoping that it may reflect something on the INNER.The News item in THE HINDU, dt.23rd July 2008 says Bosnian-Serb wartime President Radovan Karadsic, wanted for genocide and crimes during the Bosnian War, was arrested near Belgrade after 13 years on the run, in disguise and working as a doctor who was indicted for Srebrenica genocide, where 8,000 were massacred.

BIODATA OF PRESIDENT RADOVAN KARADSIC

June 19, 1945

Born in Montenegro

1960

Moves to Sarajevo

1968

Publishes collection of poetry

1971

Graduates as psychiatrist specialising in neurosis, depression

1983

Becomes team psychologist for Red Star Belgrade football club

1990

Becomes president of rightwing Serbian Democratic Party

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1992 – 1995

Bosnian war, indicted for war crimes and genocide by UN tribunal.Accused of authorising the shooting of civilians during 43 month seige of Sarajevo and massacre of about 8,000 muslims in Srebrenica

July 18, 2008

Arrested on bus by Serbian security forces

Richard Holbrooke, former U.S. Balkan trouble-shooter, described Karadsic as the Osama bin Laden of Europe, “a real, true architect of mass murder”.

“The arrest of Radovan Karadsic is confirmation that every criminal will eventually face justice”.“I hope that people who had to keep quiet because of Karadsic will start revealing the locations of mass graves and let us find the truth about the beloved”. ----Munira Subasic, Head of a Srebrenica Widow’s Association.

“Karadsic is still seen by militant nationalists as a national saviour following the collapse of Yugoslavia. “This is payback to the EU for bringing this new government to power”. “Karasdic is a Serbian hero.There will be a strong backlash”.Aleksandar Vucic of the nationalist Radicals.

When I read this in the newspaper I had a mixed feeling since two parties take two different attitudes towards this incident.One holding him as a hero and the other as a criminal.The reasons are very obvious, self-interest.But above all what I felt is the saying that ALL IS WELL THAT ENDS WELL.Whether he is a hero or a criminal, the episode has come to an end and based on that end we build our own opinions according to ones like and dislike.Now why is it so important that all incidents should fit into the category that ALL IS WELL THAT ENDS WELL? And only then the psyche is at ease, peace, if not there will be a gap, nagging and some kind of discomfort.Can the end justify the means?One tortures ones mind through control, confirming, imitation, adjustment, discipline, struggle etc. and at the end expects peace to come upon them.“How can a tortured mind find peace”, the “peace is at the very beginning and not at the end, like freedom.

When Gandhi engaged himself in the freedom struggle of India, thousands of people were killed in the name of non-violence for example the killings of Jalian Wallah Bagh.During that time Gandhi was anti-British and so he was treated as a prisoner and when India got its freedom and he has become a hero.So the fundamental structure of good, bad, right, wrong etc. were only according individual’s point of view and that too for a period of time and since man does not have the capability or capacity to see the whole thing in one stroke, sticks on to his opinion and hence division and fight. Why not have the capacity to see the tree in the seed itself.